The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's dismissal of inventor Craig Linden's telehealth patent claims against ResMed. The court agreed that the claimed method for remotely treating patients was an abstract idea, not a specific technological system, and that the generic hardware components recited in the claims did not supply an inventive concept. Linden had argued the claims required a concrete technological architecture, but the court found that argument waived as to representative claim selection.
Across the Atlantic, Advocate General Andrea Biondi of the Court of Justice of the European Union recommended that the court dismiss ByteDance's challenge to TikTok's designation as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act. Biondi concluded the European Commission applied the proper standard and that users' use of other social media platforms did not by itself show TikTok was not an important gateway. The opinion is not binding but signals how the court may rule.
A jury in the Middle District of Florida awarded WhereverTV $213 million in reasonable royalties after finding Comcast infringed patent claims covering systems for integrating cable TV channels with streaming services. The verdict, which also found the claims not invalid, followed a Federal Circuit remand last July on claim construction. WhereverTV alleged Comcast used the technology in its X1 set-top boxes to counter cord-cutting.
Separately, Senators Maria Cantwell and Mike Rounds sent a letter urging a coordinated federal response to AI safety and cybersecurity concerns. The letter, addressed to the Director of National Intelligence, the White House Task Force for Super Intelligence, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, called for expanding independent testing of advanced AI models and developing federal AI security standards and risk-management frameworks.